For most of us, the movement of water in a drinking glass goes unnoticed. But to Los Angeles-based photographer and architect Moses Hacmon, a closer look revealed a sight he'd never seen before.

Using a special technique he developed with a liquid nanoparticle film coating, he captured water up close in photos that look as if they're microscopic images – only they're really on the scale of what you'd see with the naked eye, and some measure as large as 3 feet by 4 feet.

Hacmon used paper with a silver-based liquid to capture water in motion, he told PetaPixel.com. "Here I keep a liquid layer of iron that registers the movement in the water first and then can be imprinted on any surface in any shape."

He ended up taking more than two dozen photos using the technique, titling them "Faces of Water." Hacmon currently is running a fundraising campaign on USA Projects in hopes of putting together an educational exhibit for schools with 4-feet-by-8-feet prints of the photos, to illustrate the role water has in shaping our lives, he said.

See more at the Faces of Water website or on Facebook.

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